Daily Archives: June 15, 2015

Wilkings Fadhili is a 23 year old Kenyan journalist by profession, a blogger, Fashion PR, founder and CEO of the Fashion Torch Company. Wilkings started The Fashion Torch Company as a medium to connect fashion designers, models, stylists, buyers, investors and the consumers. Fashion, writing and networking are at the very top of Wilkings favourite things. He fancies himself an innovator of some kind.

Change, revolution, and beauty inspires Wilkings: the change to see things better than the way they are, the revolution we bring to push change forward and the beauty to see everything positively whatever the state they are in. The Fashion Torch TV Show /Company believes in these three things.. Motivational change, sweet revolution and inspirational beauty.They definitely work hard to see Africa Fashion being one of the things that is changing and impacting our lives.

Mmmm..Africa Reign is where Africa stands up, all African countries joining hands together in making sure we reign and prosper. Standing together and facing out challenges and getting solutions to our challenges.If we stand together, walk together, believe in each other that’s the start of great Africa Reign. So Africa Reign is about togetherness and unity.

Wilkings is a very spiritual person and he believes in building the “African Dream” we must put God first.If we put God first that’s the starting point of solutions being born, the starting point of unity, if we are in unity, believe in each other, connect with each other and work together then definitely we will build the Africa Dream. So being in touch with our spiritual selves will help us have some direction towards building a better Africa for ourselves. Things are definitely changing thanks to the internet that has allowed us to come together as the African Youth. With conferences being organized and attracting many young Africans the youth are definitely motivated to help develop Africa.

At only 17 years of age Khensani Mohlatlole has covered many a fashion show for her Blog Glitter Daiquiri and a reputable African Magazine. Khensani describes herself as a high school zombie from Johannesburg moonlighting as a cool kid on occasion. She is crazy about film, low art, prose and poetry and all these can be reflected on her blog.

I say a lot of things about fashion, photography and feminist rants on my blog, Glitter Daiquiri.

Khensani feels that Africa is arguably the wealthiest and richest continents in the world: not only mineral wealth but in its people, its histories and possibilities.”Africa Reign for me is basically about getting people to remember that we are rich and to utilize those riches”.

Glitter Betty is Khensani’s upcoming online store for the average South African girl who has assigned herself as “broke with expensive taste” and wants affordable fashion that is not seen on everyone. Glitter Betty promises to be your go to place for thrift clothes and some pretty rad jewelry. I am very optimistic and excited for Khensani’s future.

I don’t beleive that an African Dream needs to be build so much as I think it is all about abandoning concepts of what could be and then changing and bettering what is.

In realizing the African Dream or in trying to achieve the so called “Africa Dream” this youngster feels that is is too easy to get lost in narratives about some sort of cohesive future as opposed to making the most of your present.